How to use Strings in PHP

This tutorial will teach you how to use strings in PHP and will familiarize you with basic operators and functions of strings

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In this tutorial you will learn how to use strings in PHP and will be explained the basic operators and functions of strings.

Step 1: Strings in PHP
A string is a series of characters. In PHP, we can store any text in a string php with single quoting the text in order to make it recognizable as a string by PHP.

Step 2: Joining two strings using concatenation operator
Basically there are two operators in strings, the Concatenation and assignment operators. These operators help you to manipulate your strings in PHP. The concatenation operator returns the concatenation of the two arguments. For example, we concatenate two strings containing the text "Hello" and "world" resulting in a single string "Hello world".

Step 3: Using assignment concatenation operator
If certain text is needed to be appended to an existing string php, concatenate assignment operator can be used to do so in PHP. For example, the text"world" can be appended to an exisiting string containing "hello" resulting in the string containing "hello world".

Step 4: Significant functions of strings
String functions allow you to make better use of your strings. Strings can be manipulated and used differently in different situations by using string functions.There are a lot of functions in strings which allow you to do so.